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Fencer Vulns
high 7.8

CVE-2017-13168 json

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel scsi driver.

published 2017-12-06 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-4685

cvss
7.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 33%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel scsi driver. Product: Android. Versions: Android kernel. Android ID A-65023233.

Patch / fix

  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.17.6-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-13168

  • linux Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 3.13.0-162.212
  • linux Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-134.160
  • linux Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-39.42
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 4.4.0-1028.31
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-1066.76
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-1027.27
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.15.0-1024.25~16.04.2
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-1024.25

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-13168

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-13168 updated cvss 4.7

kernel: scsi: sg driver can improperly access userspace memory

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-alt, python-perf, +9 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 kernel-rt, mrg-rt-release, kernel-rt-trace, kernel-rt-vanilla, kernel-rt-firmware
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 33% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • Google Inc. Android

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.